chapter 30 (HIST 1302)
As the civil rights movement spread across the country in the 1960s, it encountered more problems including all of the following
-a white backlash concerned about "reverse discrimination." -de facto segregation based on living patterns. -it was increasingly factionalized -the rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s nonviolent approach.
The New Frontier included all of the following
-more federal aid to education. -A health insurance plan for the elderly. -an increase in the minimum wage. -the adoption of Keynesian economic policies.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) exemplified the civil rights organizations of the 1960s in all of the following ways
-promoted freedom rides with CORE. -registered African Americans to vote -became increasingly militant as the decade wore on. -brought students into confrontational direct action.
The presidential campaign of 1968 revealed all of the following
-the Democrats divided badly over the Vietnam War. -Richard Nixon made a remarkable political comeback. -many northern workers and southerners were alienated by the changes of the 1960s. -the war was proving increasingly divisive to all segments of American society.
The feminist who wrote in The Feminine Mystique that women could find satisfaction only from "creative work" of their own was
Betty Friedan.
The Mexican American labor leader who struggled to build a farm workers union was
Cesar Chavez.
Spanish-speaking Americans who demanded their rights and organized politically in the 1960s and 1970s were known as
Chicanos
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution resulted in
Congress's support of Johnson's desire to increase military activity in Vietnam.
The antiwar senator from Minnesota who nearly defeated Lyndon Johnson in the 1968 New Hampshire primary was:
Eugene McCarthy.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) exemplified the civil rights organizations of the 1960s in all of the following ways EXCEPT it
FOLLOWED the moderate policies of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The presidential campaign of 1968 revealed all of the following EXCEPT
George Wallace challenged Richard Nixon for control of the Republican party.
Which of these statements regarding the Tet offensive is FALSE?
It resulted in a sweeping communist military victory.
The Arkansas senator who chaired televised hearings on the war in Vietnam was
J. William Fulbright.
Each of the following lost his job due to Nixon-era scandals EXCEPT
John Sirica.
The result of the Cuban missile crisis was that
Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in return for the U.S. promise not to invade Cuba.
The official version of the Kennedy assassination concluded that
Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist sympathizer with ties to Fidel Castro, acted alone in planning and executing the crime.
By the mid-60s, many younger, more militant African Americans looked to leaders like the Nation of Islam's ______________ for inspiration.
Malcolm X
Lt. William Calley was convicted of murder in conjunction with the U.S. massacre of 400 Vietnamese civilians at the village of
My Lai.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution led to American involvement in
Southeast Asia.
The New Frontier included all of the following EXCEPT
Stronger regulatory controls on big business.
Any remaining hopes of an American victory were crushed by the startling ______________ that began on January 30, 1968.
Tet Offensive
The standoff between the Soviet Union and the United States over Berlin in 1961 had the following result.
The tension gradually eased, but Berlin and the rest of Europe remained divided with neither side claiming complete victory.
Edward Brooke was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve as a
United States senator.
The Free Speech Movement began at
University of California at Berkeley.
The National Liberation Front, or ___________, were guerrilla fighters indigenous to South Vietnam.
Viet Cong
Kennedy responded to Soviet missiles in Cuba with
a naval quarantine of Cuba to prevent the shipment of new missiles coupled with nuclear threat to force the removal of missiles already in place.
Which best describes the Viet Cong?
communist guerrillas in South Vietnam
The approach of the Kennedy administration toward defense spending and the nuclear arsenal was to
construct an awesome nuclear arsenal with first-strike capability, which would put the Soviets on the defensive.
President Kennedy's solution to the escalating guerrilla fighting in South Vietnam was to
continue to support Diem while recognizing that it was ultimately South Vietnam's war to win or lose.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring mobilized many Americans for environmentalism by what she revealed about
crop pesticides.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was responsible for
direct but peaceful confrontation that would heighten the social tension of the civil rights movement.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided all of the following EXCEPT
evidence that the South would no longer resist equality for all.
Political radicals opposed the Great Society because it
failed to redistribute income.
Nixon's resignation resulted when
he lost the support of enough senators needed to avoid conviction in Watergate-related matters.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 was a good example of
how the president manipulated Congress and public opinion concerning Vietnam.
Johnson's Great Society represented
long-awaited reforms in health care, federal aid to education, and promotion of civil rights.
The work of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson was representative of the
new sexual freedom in the United States in the 1960s.
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a student organization of the 1960s
protesting poverty, racism, and violence in America.
The Economic Opportunity Act was an important part of Johnson's legislative program because it
provided education for the unskilled.
Johnson's failure regarding Vietnam was to
refuse to acknowledge he had committed the United States to dangerous military involvement.
Lyndon Johnson used 20,000 American troops to intervene in
the Dominican Republic.
Which of the following events took place during the Johnson administration?
the Tet Offensive
The Supreme Court's decision in Miranda v. Arizona was important because it showed that
the courts were giving more protection to individual rights.
The Kent State demonstrations were staged to protest
the military incursion into Cambodia.
John F. Kennedy took advantage of which of the following factors to win the presidency in 1960?
the sagging national economy and the frustration over Sputnik
As the civil rights movement spread across the country in the 1960s, it encountered more problems including all of the following EXCEPT
the weakening of militant organizations such as SNCC.
Both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations developed a foreign policy based primarily on
their Cold War views.
The March on Washington of August 1963 was important because
through the media, it made the nation more sensitive to the civil rights effort.
President Kennedy was
unable to find the votes in Congress to pass his legislative program.
The Saturday Night Massacre led to the firing of
Archibald Cox.
In its _________ decision in 1973, the Supreme Court established a woman's constitutional right to abortion.
Roe v. Wade